Asrava
āsrava (perhaps oftener written āśrava), m. (= Pali āsava), evil influence, depravity, evil, sin, misery ; CPD s.v. anāsava, intoxicants , i.e … passions ; Lévi, Sūtrāl. ix.23 n. 1 , Lʼécoulement (āsrava) est le mouvement qui porte la pensée à se répandre, comme une eau qui fuit, vers les choses du dehors ; Johnston, Saundarān. xvi.3 , Transl. , note: the influences which attach a man to the saṃsāra; hence sāsrava and laukika are equivalent, as are anāsrava and lokottara; Tib. ( e.g. on Mvy 2141 āśravaḥ) zag pa , misery , also sin : anupādāyāsravebhyaś cittāni vimuktāni, see anupādāya ; āśravakṣayajñāna is [Page112-a] the sixth abhijñā , q.v. ; śuṣkā āśravā na puna śravanti LV 351.1 (with play on etym. , root sru), the āśravas, dried up, flow no more ; getting rid of them is arhatship, prāptaṃ mayārhatvaṃ kṣīṇā me āśravā(ḥ) LV 376.11 ; jinā … ye prāptā āśravakṣayam LV 406.6 ; arhantānāṃ kṣīṇāśravāṇām Mv i.59.7 ff. ; the Buddha is sarvāśravāntakaraṇaṃ Mv i.203.16 = ii.7.12 ; prahīnasarvāśravabandhanasya Buddhasya Divy 379.12 ; kṣīṇāśrava (or °srava), said of a bhikṣu, Divy 542.21 , of a muni Jm 17.16 ; equivalent to duḥkha, in formula of 4 noble truths: (after idaṃ duḥkham) ayam āśravasamudayo 'yam āśravanirodha iyam āśravanirodhagāminī pratipad LV 348.19 f. ; in Mv ii.285.5 , after statement of all four truths as usual with duḥkha, they are repeated with āśravāḥ ( pl. ), ime āśravāḥ, imo ( mss. ime) āśravasamudayo ayaṃ āśravanirodho etc. ; nirvāsyanti anāśravāḥ Mv ii.66.6 ; there are four āśrava (also = ogha, yoga ), listed LV 348.21—22 , viz. kāma-, bhava-, avidyā-, dṛṣṭi- (so also in Pali , kāma, bhava, avijjā, diṭṭhi, but also a list of only three, omitting diṭṭhi); very common is anāsrava (= kṣīṇā° above), free from the depravities or from evil; pure (less commonly nirāśrava, LV 405.21 , of Buddha), sometimes contrasted with its opposite sāśrava: nāpi ye dharmā anāśravāḥ te sāśravā ti deśayāmi (and vice versa ) Mv i.173.8—9 ; sāsravānāsravāḥ (dharmāḥ) SP 142.10 ; devamanuṣyasarvaśrāvakapratyekabuddhakuśalāni sāsravāṇy anāsravāṇi vā (all of little value) Gv 500.14 ; anāsrava (or °śrava), of persons, SP 34.13 (read here adya me with mss. for adyeme); LV 242.11 ; jñānaṃ vipulaṃ anāsravam SP 15.7 ; anāśravaṃ te caraṇaṃ Mv i.164.8 , thy conduct is pure ; āśravāṇāṃ kṣayād anāśravāṃ cetovimuktiṃ ( acc. sg. ) Mv iii.321.9—10 ; anāśravasadṛśaṃ prathamadhyānaṃ Divy 391.16 ; sāśravaṃ cittaṃ Mv ii.403.13 ; sāśravānāṃ (dental n) … dhyānasamādhisamāpattīnāṃ (of the false teacher Rudraka) doṣo LV 244.2—3 ; unlike anuśaya , with which it is sometimes associated or even equated ( AbhidhK. LaV-P. v.79 ), it is always used with evil connotation; in Gv 461.3—4 kalyāṇamitrādhīnāḥ … bodhisattvānāṃ sarvabodhisattvacaryāśravāḥ, the last cpd. contains -bodhisattvacaryā plus śravāḥ (= sravāḥ, streams ; cf. -praṇidhāna-śrotāṃsi, line 6), not -āśravāḥ.